Accordingly it would be absurd to acquit the one who evidently committed murder because he pleads he is a murderer, when the prosecutor charges the defendant of "killing." For what is the difference of which this man speaks? And you yourself brought suit against Theon for saying you "flung away" your shield. Nothing is said in the law about "flinging," but if any one declared he has "thrown away" his shield, it decrees a fine of 500 drachmae. 13. Would it not be terrible if whenever it were necessary for you to punish your enemies for slander, for you to interpret the laws as I do now, but whenever you speak illegally of another, to think you ought not to be punished? Are you so powerful as to be able to employ the laws as you wish, or have you such influence as to believe that those whom you wrong will not get a recompense? 14. Are you not ashamed to have the thought that you should claim advantages, not from your services to the state, but from your unpunished deeds? But read me the law. LAW. 15. I now, gentlemen of the jury, assume that you all know that I speak to the point, but he is so clumsy that he cannot understand what is said. So I wish to inform him also from other laws about these things, that even now while he is on the platform, he may be informed and may give you no further trouble. Now read me the old laws of Solon. 16. _Law. Let him be bound, in the stocks by the feet, if the court decrees it in addition._ The "stocks," Theomnestus, is the same thing which is now called the "pillory." If then a man who has been bound should on his release complain when the Eleven were undergoing their audit that he had not been bound in stocks but in the pillory, would they not think him crazy? Read another law. 17. _Law. Let him give security, having sworn by Apollo, fearing to escape on account of the penalty._ The (old-fashioned) "swearing falsely" now means "swearing by," and "running off" is our "escape." _And whoever shuts a door with a thief inside._ The "close" is our "shut" and means the same. 18. _Money may be at interest at whatever rate the lender wishes._ The "interest," my good friend, is not "weighed," but draws whatever percent is wished. Read now the last law. 19. _As many as go about in plain view,_ and _He shall be responsible for injury to a domestic or female slave._